Essay #1

Samuel
Adams grandparents sailed across the ocean to gain freedom from the crown in
England. Samuel Adam’s father lived and
saw the fight to allow these to be in the colonies and Samuel Adam is prepared
to let the citizens know what is really going on, so that the colonies can have
real freedom from the crown.

While
King George II was in reign a writ of assistance was passed allowing the police
to search for any merchandise that was brought to the colonies illegally. Because the search warrants did not have a
termination date and were not specific on what they were looking for and who’s
stuff they were to search. Samuel Adams
thought that the writ of assistance against their natural rights because it
violated mans liberty to have police search through their property, King George III had kept the writ of
assistance which continued to violate every “English [and every] mans”
rights.

While
England had just lost the French and Indian war King George III had sent for
taxes from the colonist so he could pay of his debts. Great Britain had placed
the sugar act which placed an indirect tax on sugar, tea, indigo, wines,
textiles, and coffee. The sugar act had
an effect on the colonist to the extent that the price of everything had gone
up in value and that the merchants were the most greatly affected. The sugar act had increased the prices of item made of sugar, wine, molasses, indigo,
textiles, and coffee creating a high economy for the early colonists. While
boycotting the items that were affected by the sugar act was nearly impossible
because of the need of the items in everyday life, however Samuel Adams showed
the people through petitions and through pamphlets exactly what Great Britain
was doing.

Continually
needing more money King George III had sent another act to the colonists, the
Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was an act that
“all legal papers, commercial papers, liquor licenses, land instruments,
indentures, cards, dice, pamphlets, newspapers, advertisements, almanacs,
academic degrees, and appointments to office “ had to be stamped to official
and not illegal. For the colonist to
rebel and boycott the stamp act the colonist found those who volunteered to be
a stamp man and threaten them so they wouldn’t show up. This act was not long lived. Those who knew what was going on had threatened
the stamp collectors not allowing the stamps to be used the first day causing
the businesses continue on illegally. This act is the first of its kind it
breaks regular custom, because the stamp act was the first that was a direct
tax. The money that was collected from this tax went directly to the British treasury;
the money would be used for problems that happened in America. The stamp act had continued to push the
colonist to wanting freedom because they were abusing the colonist
property. Britain had seen the effect of
the boycott and rebellion and they repealed the act, however the same day that
the stamp act was repealed the Declaratory Act was put into place. The Declaratory act was created with very
intense language. Part of the
Declaratory Act states that: "that the King’s majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons of Great
Britain, in parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have,
full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and
validity to bind the colonies… in all cases whatsoever." The declaratory
act was violating the natural right of liberty and property and is an action by
Great Britain that would be a justifiable reason for revolting and
rebellion.

Another
act was passed by the crown called the quartering act. The Quartering Act was an act where Great
Britain sent over her troops to watch on the colonists. It was a requirement for all the colonist
that housed officers and soldiers would have to provide a furnished living
facility with food, light, and utensils without being paid for the
services. The Quartering Act violated
the natural right of liberty and of property because the poor colonist would
spend money on the soldiers and officers to not be paid back in return. The Quartering Act violates the natural
right of property because giving up what you have to support someone with
opposite ideas as you then not getting paid in return a complete violation of
right to property.

Many
of the founding fathers had reason for revolting and for filing for
independence. These men had reasons such
as violating the laws od natural rights Declaratory act saying that the parliament
could make any laws that wanted toward the colonist to benefit the
colonist. All these acts from Great Britain
had given the colonist the right to rebel because of the violation of their rights.
The colonist had rebelled legally by sending petitions and letters, then civil disobediences,
and then full out rebellion.

Even
though Great Britain did inhumane things to those in the colonies they helped
move the colonists to where they needed to be to rebel and to make a stand for
freedom and the push to create their own government and to break away from
Great Britain. In Ezra Taft Bensons talk
Ezra Taft Benson states “[that] freedom-loving men owe a debt of gratitude to
Great Britain and those human instruments who provided that first flicker of
‘freedom's holy light’ to future generations, [we are truly indebted]”.